Carly

If you’re a Liberal, why bother presenting an issue on its merits, when you can twist and distort you opponent’s views in a vicious attempt to make them sound insane?

Via Mediaite:

How do you take a candidate who supports mandatory vaccination and make her into an anti-vaccine nutter? Take half a quote, add a warped definition of “mandatory” vaccines, and stir.

Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina was asked…during a campaign stop in Iowa about her stance on vaccines. “Parents should have a choice,” she told a mother who didn’t want to vaccinate her child. Later, in a conversation with reporters afterwards, she explained her stance on the issue. “When you have highly communicable diseases where you have a vaccine that’s proven, like measles or mumps, then I think a parent can make that choice,” she said.

Based off those two remarks, media outlets went nuts, especially liberal ones. “Carly Fiorina Comes Out in Favor of Kids Getting Measles,” wrote Slate. “Carly Fiorina Against Vaccine Mandates,” wrote Talking Points Memo. “Oh Look, Carly Fiorina Is a Vaccine Truther,” wrote BlueNationReview.

But all of the above headlines were wrong or misleading. In the full quote, Fiorina makes it clear that she does support mandatory vaccination….

“When you have highly communicable diseases where you have a vaccine that’s proven, like measles or mumps, then I think a parent can make that choice, but then I think a school district is well within their rights to say, ‘I’m sorry, your child cannot then attend public school.’ So a parent has to make that trade-off….

Taken in context, Fiorina’s statement ought to be uncontroversial. In fact, her stance pretty well sums up the state of vaccine law in all 50 states, where vaccines are not mandatory for all children, but mandatory before they are allowed to attend public school (and private schools and preschools, depending on the state)….

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  1. Cathode Rays says:

    “When you have highly communicable diseases where you have a vaccine that’s proven, like measles or mumps, then I think a parent can make that choice, but then I think a school district is well within their rights to say, ‘I’m sorry, your child cannot then attend public school.’ So a parent has to make that trade-off….”

    This is exactly right.

    The problem comes when libs or Rick Perry stick their noses in where they don’t belong, like vaccines for venereal diseases or sharing a needle. Stuff the liberal media would approve. The government assumes you’re gonna behave badly, so it’s gonna require this or that. Not their business.

  2. Alain41 says:

    It’s almost like the legacy media had to lie because otherwise it would be forced to say that Carly believes that parents can make choices after a baby is born. Choice is only for preparents.

  3. Alain41 says:

    This could be fun if Carly were to get the nomination against Hillary. WaPo reports that; “Carly Fiorina’s dad, Thomas Sneed, was on the three-judge panel that picked a Whitewater special counsel — it was Sneed who recommended Kenneth Starr for the job…Colby Itkowitz reports.”

  4. Piquerish says:

    Seems worthy of being added as an appendage to Ann Coulter’s book, Slander.

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